Dr Jeremiah LWASA ,Dr Kyabaggu Christopher and Dr. Arinaitwe James
Dear well-wisher,
Thank you for your continued support.
We decided to publish this special edition of our newsletter to share with you the great news that three of the students supported by OKAS Fund have achieved the much-coveted medical doctor title, all at the same time!
Dear well-wisher,
Thank you for your continued support. In this newsletter we bring you an update on our activities during the past year.
Our primary mission is to provide scholarships to needy students at our beloved school, OKSSS. In some cases, where the student lives very far from the school, we also provide nominal transport costs.
We are pleased to report that, due to your generosity, we were able to provide 45 scholarships to needy students during the past year. This matched the previous year’s number, and was a huge increase from previous years, mainly because, during the COVID years 2020 and 2021, the school was completely shut down, and therefore we had zero scholarship-related expenses.
Dear well-wisher,
In this newsletter we bring to you a write-up of a recent visit to our beloved school OKSSS, written by Arun Patel (chairman, OKAS Fund); more success stories (of course!), and other notable items. We start with Arun’s report:
Dear well-wisher,
We are grateful to you for your continued support of OKAS Fund. It is because of your support that we have been able to continue our scholarship program and other projects at our beloved school, Old Kampala Senior Secondary School (OKSSS).
Your contribution, however small, makes a big difference in the lives of our sponsored students.
The school has remained closed for most of the year with the exception for the candidates taking the GCSE and A-Level exams. It is scheduled to reopen in January 2022.
Dear well-wisher,
These are difficult times. We are in the midst of a pandemic. The coronavirus has brought hardship and suffering all over the world. But in developing countries, and especially among the poor, the impact has been far more pronounced, worsened by lack of medical care and social support programs.
During the pandemic, our work continues.
In the summer of 2018 some of the trustees and well-wishers of OKAS Fund visited Books Abroad, a U.K.-registered charity founded some four decades ago.
Books Abroad is based in Rhynie, a small village in Northern Scotland. It is 40 miles west of the coastal town of Aberdeen, and about 140 miles north of Edinburgh.
On 25th November 2016, Mayoor Patel BCAo, a founding trustee of OKAS Fund, was invited by , the Ugandan High Commissioner to the United Kingdom for a private audience.
Mayoor took the opportunity to present to HE Kikafunda OKAS Fund’s seminal project of providing textbooks to his alma mater, the Old Kampala Senior Secondary School.
To ensure that all students at the Old Kampala Senior Secondary School have access to textbooks
Facts:
Less than 10% of the 2000 students currently enrolled in classes Senior 1 to Senior 6 have access to standard textbooks.
Most students rely on classroom notes prepared by their teachers using books that are outdated editions.
Despite this severe limitation, many students continue to achieve stellar grades in both ‘O’ and ‘A’ level exams.
Project: